Bladder Cancer Flashcards
What is the most common type of bladder cancer?
Uroepithelial/transitional cell
What is the most common buzzword presentation?
Painless haematuria
What is the major workplace risk factor?
What is the major lifestyle factor?
Factories involved with industrial dyes, leather, cars or blacksmiths
Smoking - v. highly linked with transitional cell carcinoma
How is it diagnosed?
Via biopsy and cytoscopy
On presentation are the majority invading the bladder wall or not?
Not
How are not-muscle invading cancers dealt with compared to those who have invaded the muscle wall?
Not invaded
- TURBT = transurethral resection of the bladder tumour
+ chemo directly into bladder post surgery
Invaded
- radial cystectomy + ileal conduit with stoma
- chemo/radio therapy likely needed
What is the prognosis of bladder cancer?
Good 5 year prognosis rate
Infection with what parasite can cause metaplasia and eventually squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder?
Schistosmiasis
If patient presents with frank haematuria and a history of smoking what would you do next?
Cytoscopy - highly likely to be bladder cancer
